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Friday September 11, 1998

World Report

TORONTO (JTA) -- A hockey Hall of Famer accused of making anti-Semitic and anti-black comments will meet with representatives of Jewish and black groups in the Toronto offices of the Canadian Jewish Congress on Thursday.

Hockey champ Bobby Hull claims he was misquoted last month in the Moscow Times. The English language newspaper in the former Soviet Union quoted him as saying, among other things, that Hitler had some good ideas, but had gone too far.

Germany to honor Spielberg for movie

BERLIN (JTA) -- Director Steven Spielberg will receive Germany's Cross of the Order of Merit for "Schindler's List."

The honor recognizes the 1993 film's powerful effect in generating a broader understanding of the Holocaust. President Roman Herzog was expected yesterday to present the award to the director in a ceremony in Berlin.

Netanyahu making first trip to Georgia

JERUSALEM (JPS) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to travel to Georgia on Wednesday to celebrate a thousand years of Jewish life in that country.

Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze invited Netanyahu to make the trip when he was in Israel in January. While in Georgia, Netanyahu will receive honorary citizenship from the city of Tbilisi.

Survivor advocate calls lawsuits `crazy'

BERLIN (JPS) -- Klaus von Muenchhausen, the advocate for former slave laborers at Volkswagen, last week slammed the two slave-labor lawsuits filed in the United States as "crazy" initiatives that could harm the deal he attained.

"There is nothing to fight in the court," said von Muenchhausen, an academic from Bremen. "This is completely crazy. We have the agreement from July, after we had a hard fight against Volkswagen."

He won an agreement in principle from VW to pay compensation to slave laborers. The details were due to be announced after the VW board met today.

Two slave labor suits were filed last week. One, filed in federal court in Brooklyn, names VW and 11 other German and Austrian companies, including Siemens, Krupp, Daimler-Benz, Audi, BMW and Leica Camera. The second lawsuit, filed in federal court in Newark, N.J., names only Volkswagen.

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